RARE ASSOCIATION COPY OF BOUBAT’S COMME AVEC UNE FEMME, INSCRIBED TO AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER PETER TURNLEY

BOUBAT, Édouard. Comme avec une Femme. [Paris]: Hors Collection, (1994). Quarto, original laminated paper-covered boards. $750.

First edition, inscribed on the half title to Boubat’s close friend, acclaimed photojournalist Peter Turnley, “Pour Peter, pour un fervent avec milles lumieres, à toi, Édouard, La Brasserie, 26 fevrier, 1994” (For Peter, for a passionate [photographer] with millions of brilliant ideas, to you, Édouard), inscribed in the year of publication at La Brasserie in Paris, with 71 luminous black-and-white photogravures.

“One of France’s most celebrated postwar photographers,” Édouard Boubat left a legacy that crucially defined French humanist photography, with its “anecdotal, serendipitous depictions of human behavior,” a lyrical perspective that saw true meaning residing “in the seemingly insignificant, where it waits to be discovered by a discerning eye” (New York Times). With 71 photogravure plates of women and their lives, taken over four decades, in countries around the world; text in French. This rare association copy inscribed to Boubat’s longtime friend and colleague, award-winning, Paris-based photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has recalled that “one of my first personal encounters with the great photography of France came when I called on Boubat” in 1975… That first meeting was the beginning of a friendship that would grow for the next 24 years” (Digital Journalist). Owner signature.

A fine copy, scarce inscribed.